Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to provide urgent technical assistance in the field of plant health as regards the list of host plants of Xylella fastidiosa reported in Appendix В of the recently published EFSA Scientific ...
The objective of the EU-coordinated Multi Annual Pesticide Control Program (MACP) is the assessment of MRL exceedance (above 1%) in food items available for consumption in the EU market as well as consumer exposure. The 30 food items currently included in ...
In its control programmes on maximum residue level compliance and exposure assessments, EFSA requires the participating countries to submit results, from specific numbers of food item samples, analyzed in the countries. These data are used to obtain esti ...
Extensive literature searches as background data for the categorisation of Erwinia amylovora, Xylophilus ampelinus and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. insidiosus in the EU were performed. Specific topics were addressed selecting relevant search terms emb ...
In May 2013, Germany reported cases of hepatitis A virus (HAV) genotype IA infection in persons with a travel history and Italy reported a national increase in the number of HAV cases and declared an outbreak. Confirmed cases (outbreak strain KF182323) ha ...